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Introduction to information literacy for students
Introduction to Information Literacy for Students presents a concise, practical guide to navigating information in the digital age. Features a unique step-by-step method that can be applied to any research project Includes research insights from professionals, along with review exercises, insiders' tips and tools, search screen images utilized by students, and more Encourages active inquiry-based learning through the inclusion of various study questions and exercises Provides students with effective research strategies to serve them through their academic years and professional careers Ensures accessibility and a strong instructional approach due to authorship by a librarian and award-winning English professor.
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Thomas Wolfe remembered
\"A collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great American writer\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Canadian studies in the new millennium
\"This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Students and professors alike acknowledge it as an ideal tool for understanding the close relationship between the two countries, their shared experiences, and their differing views on a range of issues.
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The Real Thomas Wolfe
Thanks to the makers of the 2016 film Genius, moviegoers had the opportunity to see one of America's most charismatic authors return to life, this time on the silver screen, magically resurrected to a size even more prodigious than the 6'6\" frame and larger-than-life personality that made Thomas Wolfe the literary giant of the 1930s. Aswell, who spent years slogging through that giant manuscript and miraculously transforming it into three posthumous books (The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and The Hills Beyond), has been gone for more than a half century, as has his more famous predecessor, Maxwell Perkins, whose editorial work with Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of A. Scott Berg's book, Max Perkins: Editor ofGenius, on which Michael Grandage's film is based. Recalling the experience, Wolverine George Stoney wrote: \"Tremendous, flabby, stuttering, homesick, still a boy at thirty-six, his warm brown eyes pleading forgiveness; his stumbling heavy lips blubbered sentimentalities about how good it was to be back\" (238). Typist James Mandel remembered a round table \"cluttered with papers, ledgers, books, unwashed dishes, ashes, cigarette butts, pencils and glasses.\"
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Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War
In an 1899 reminiscence called \" The Mean Face of War,\" Davis de- scribes Wheeling as \"A sleepy old Southern town of which I knew was made by the Government, at an early date, the headquarters of a military department,\" in which she witnessed military patrols of the city, bugles and flags, a bodyguard that \"galloped madly up and down,\" a hall that was converted into a prison, and the ap- pearance on one occasion of wounded prisoners of war. [...]these writers struck her as out of touch.
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Stories of Today
Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for the Wheeling Intelligencer in her home state of Virginia. Throughout a writing career that spanned five decades and produced hundreds of stories, novels, and articles, she retained an interest in journalism. Beginning with an 1861 story, \"Life in the Iron-Mills, \"she used fiction to report on current events. Later works, such as Put Out of the Way, an exposé of the system for institutionalizing the supposedly insane, and John Andross, a study of the effects of the Whiskey Ring on an individual, constituted a distinctive literary form: investigative fiction. Her work in this genre anticipated the major achievements of several other American writers, including Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe.
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Thomas Wolfe, \return,\ and the Asheville Citizen
While he was at college in Chapel Hill, he worked for a student newspaper, the Tar Heel, identified in its masthead as the \"Official Organ of the Athletic Association of the University of North Carolina.\" Here, from this little universe of time and place, from this small core and adyt of my being where once, hill-born and bound, a child, I lay at night, and heard the whistles wailing to the west, the thunder of great wheels along the river's edge, and wrought my vision from these hills of the great undiscovered earth and my America-here, now, forevermore, shaped here in this small world, and in the proud and flaming spirit of a boy, new children have come after us, as we: as we, the boy's face in the morning yet, and mountain night, and starlight, darkness, and the month of April, and the boy's straight eye: again, again, the thudding press, the aching shoulder, and the canvas bag; the lean arm and the rifled throw again, that whacked the blocked and folded sheet against the shacks of Niggertown.
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The Mind Is a Mask: Protecting Students against False and Misleading Information during a Pandemic
The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has given rise to widespread \"mis\"information and \"dis\"information. Even seasoned journalists have to work hard to avoid misinformation, a term for, among other things, inadvertent mistakes made in the reporting process. More troubling are the numerous examples of deliberate fabrications, or disinformation. The latter can be difficult to identify with certainty, as it is not always clear where a claim originated. But any kind of unfounded speculation or conspiracy theory can be problematic if people start to believe or even act on it. This article discusses how to protect students and ourselves from the panoply of pollutants running amok in information ecosystems. Instead of taking aim at specific examples of misinformation and disinformation (the approach of many other interventions with similar aims), Mind Over Chatter (MOC) teaches students to recognize the enemies within. Students learn how our minds' innate and sometimes irrational tendencies in processing information--what psychologists call cognitive biases--can make us all susceptible to misinterpretation and deception. In engaging with MOC's online modules, students identify and analyze different kinds of cognitive biases in video clips, excerpts from news articles, and hypothetical scenarios.
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